Recent Articles
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Prepping for Spray Foam
Getting ready for a foam-insulation crew means doing a lot more than you’d think
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Report from the International Builders’ Show
Great educational sessions, interesting new products, free food, free beer, and lingerie-clad supermodels
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Twenty-Three Reasons Why I Love GreenITers.com
Flavio Sauza, the Tokyo resident behind the GreenITers website, is like the dreamy excited guy at the party who is all over the next big thing
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Stuff I Learned at Joe Lstiburek’s House, Part 2
David Hill explains ventilation and HVAC systems — “It’s the things we know that just ain’t so”
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Labor Day Thoughts on Unemployment and Weatherization
Let’s create jobs and reduce our dependency on foreign oil by changing the way we sell and finance energy-retrofit work
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Stuff I Learned at Joe Lstiburek’s House, Part 1
Everything I thought I knew about combined hydronic heat and hot water (combo) systems utilizing tankless water heaters is up for debate
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Do It Now: Review Your Company’s Health Insurance Policy
Act fast to take advantage of Obama-care before it gets repealed
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It’s Air Conditioning, Not Air Cool-ditioning
Tight homes need dehumidification more than cooling, and SEER ratings should recognize latent as well as sensible cooling
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Report from the ICC Code Hearings
I attended the ICC hearings in Charlotte last week and got to watch sausage — er, codes — being created
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Work-Life Integration
If you love the work you do, thank your lucky stars — and feed that passion on whatever schedule works for you
